The Suicide of Dido
Giovanni Cesare Testa, After Pietro Testa
European Art
MEDIUM
Etching
DATES
ca. 1650â1655
DIMENSIONS
Image: 12 1/4 x 18 in. (31.1 x 45.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 x 18 13/16 in. (34.1 x 47.8 cm)
MARKINGS
bottom left stamped in blue: "[drawing] 127"; stamped verso center: "Sullivan Collection" and overstamped "Cancelled B.M."; stamped verso lower center: "G. Locarno Mio"; verso upper right in graphite: "7.5 xyii"
SIGNATURE
Unsigned
INSCRIPTIONS
Lower left: "Petrus Testa Inventor et Pinxit"/ "Gio, Cesar Testa incid."; lower right: "Gio: Iacomo Rossi Formis Rome alla Pace"; bottom "Extinctam famulae...incendia Miscet"; bottom right in graphite "127"
ACCESSION NUMBER
19.184.144
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan and George H. Sullivan
MUSEUM LOCATION
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